South West China’s Yuanyang is a province abundant in natural beauty and ecstatic scenery. It has earned great name in the list of scenic wonders due to its spectacular rice terraces. Yes, dropping from near the summits of the 250-meter Ailao mountain range to the deep cleft of the Red river, these rice terraces are among the world’s most spectacular and extensive terraces ever seen.
As a little known scenic wonder in southwest china’s Yunnan province, these rice terraces stand firmly with all its beauty and charm. Although its beauty has graced many but due to its remoteness it has been overlooked. With inadequate publicity and remoteness, this scenic beauty has not only failed to develop for tourism but has also lost much of its appeal and charm.
Despite huge problems and threats, the Yunnan province is concentrating high on information flow. An NGO, called ‘World Vision‘ that has been working there for years with great dedication is trying hard to benefit the villagers in various ways. Setting up fair trade co-operatives for ethnic art and crafts, imparting education to villagers to work as mountain guides, this organization is dedicated enough in setting up a sustainable tourism network in the area.
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Fantastic photos! The last seems to be unearthly!
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Oct 14th, 2008
The photographs are breathtaking. I think I agree that these are the world’s most spectacular and extensive Rice Terraces.
I hope that one day I will be able to go to Yuanyang and see this magnificent scenery. The world is truly beautiful.
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Oct 16th, 2008
That is very beautiful. It is amazing how far the rice patties go on for. I imagine with the proper facilities, tourism could be very successful here. I know I want to go!
A lot of people really like the remote out of the way places, but I can see how it would take a lot of work and some very aggressive marketing to get it going.
Oct 17th, 2008
The rice terraces in the first images almost look like different layers of water at various elevations. One would want to jump from one to the next one just to make a large splash and disturb the calmness. I think a setting such as the one shown here is desired by us because it reminds us of youth and climbing of various obstacles.
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Oct 28th, 2008
It is really amazing what is earth producing on our planet. That first picture looks like it is taken on heaven.
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Oct 30th, 2008
The pictures are so beautiful and captivating. The Philippines has these too—-beautiful and spectacular rice terraces in the Benguet province of the Philippines
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Nov 5th, 2008
That’s so amazing! Pure nature is very beautiful. Thanks.
Nov 10th, 2008
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